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The heart of my home

By Sherry Ackerman | January 25, 2013

The kitchen is the heart of my home. It’s the hub of the domestic wheel. Since it’s where the woodstove is, this time of year, it’s where everyone gathers. And, everything of any importance takes place there: meals get prepared, recipes shared, bills paid, horse grains mixed, tinctures made, messages exchanged; kombucha brewed, coffee sipped and books read. The kitchen is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Re-skilling Tagged With: cooking, family, food, slow food

If you’re not doing politics, you’re not doing enough. Review: Slow Democracy

By Erik Curren | November 26, 2012

Fairfield City Council

"We live in an anti-political moment," wrote David Brooks last week in the New York Times, "when many people — young people especially — think politics is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business. It’s much nobler to do community service or just avoid all that putrid noise." Brooks rightly suggests that seeing Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln will show that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Politics Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, David Brooks, Food Sovereignty, government, Local, local government, local sovereignty, slow food, Susan Clark, Woden Teachout

Voluntary poverty — it could save your life, but what a hard sell

By Erik Curren | July 8, 2011

Children and mom from the Depression

Poverty is finding middle class families these days these days through unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosure, whether they like it or not. And mostly, they don't like it. But John Michael Greer, author of this year's The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered and several previous books on surviving peak oil, suggests that those who haven't found poverty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit, Transition Tagged With: Diogenes, Epicurus, Henry David Thoreau, John Michael Greer, poverty, simple living, slow food, St Francis of Assisi

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